Bob Garfield is a critic, essayist, pundit, international lecturer and inveterate caster both broad and pod. The longtime co-host of WNYC’s On the Media and roving correspondent for NPR’s All Things Considered also created Audible’s podcast series The Genius Dialogues and was the founding co-host for the wildly popular Lexicon Valley podcast. He also created the Bully Pulpit podcast and now co-hosts the weekly pod Future Forward.

For 25 years, he wrote the AdReview column in Advertising Age, which generated fear and influenced careers and business decisions, but never fixed what ails the creative process. Garfield was a longtime analyst for ABC News. He’s been a regular on Financial News Network, CNBC’s Power Lunch and Adam Smith’s Money Game on PBS, as well as political-advertising analyst for CBS.

He has been a columnist or contributing editor for the Washington Post Magazine, The Guardian, Civilization, Folio, MediaPost and the op-ed page of USA Today. He has also written for The New York Times, Playboy, Atlantic, Sports Illustrated, Wired and many other publications.

Garfield is the author of eight books, including the 2009 The Chaos Scenario, which accurately predicted the agonizing death of the very industries that constitute his livelihood.

As a lecturer, panelist and emcee, he has appeared in 37 countries on six continents, including such venues as the Kennedy Center, the U.S. Capitol, the Rainbow Room, Broadway’s Hudson Theater, the Smithsonian, Circus Circus casino, Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium (Grand Ole Opry), the United Nations, Harvard, Yale, Columbia and Princeton universities and, memorably, a Thai Kickboxing ring in Cape Town, South Africa.

He’s been a visiting lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication and a senior fellow at SEI Center for Advanced Studies in Management at Penn’s Wharton School.

He was founding director, in association with Annenberg, of the Media Future Summit and co-founder of The Purple Project for Democracy.

Garfield wrote and performed Ruggedly Jewish, a theatrical one-man show on intermittent tour throughout the United States. And he co-wrote “Tag, You’re It,” a snappy country song performed by Willie Nelson. Sadly, he also wrote an episode of the short-lived NBC sitcom Sweet Surrender.

It sucked.